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2 Sheets--Sheet 2. F. L. FAIRGHILD.

FENGEPOST.

` (No Model.)

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Applcationliile'd January 14, S-BGL To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that l, FRANK T. FAIRCHILD, of Mount Vernon, Knox county,and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inFence-Posts, of which the following-is a speeilieation. g

In the manufactureof` wronghtiron fenceposts n bar of comparativelysmell cross-seetion elords the strength requisite for the snp. port ofthe fencing materinldf Such size, hon ever, does not furnish sufficientstreet for firm lodguient. in the ground and resistance to forcestending to upheaval or displacement.- As a consequence, the successfuluse of light iron for posts vrecpiires an.' enlarged losse of some'other materiel-such as stone. Ste,.-in which the post is stepped ormortised,v and secnred therein by solder, cement, te A{ Such methods areexpensive, and have limited theV use of wrought-iron for postsvalmostg'if not entirely, to ornamental fences in the c ies sindvillages. As tending to remedy ,hiI i have shown in a prior application,be -riig Serial No. 184,042,1iled November 27, 1S 5, a post combinedwith aremoveble base,wliieh-'is adapted to t closely upon the shank ofthe 'post and be retained thereon to afford the necessarybearing-surface for firm planting; in

the ground. Some of the advantages attend ant upon `such posts and basesare that the parts may be made at seperate or distant points, where thebest facilities, respectively, are found therefor. They may nel shippedseparately, savingroom in transportation, and may be assembled'at theplace of use 'Witheet the use of nements, solder, Coo., and that whenAthey are no longer needed :it one point they may be readily removed toanother. rEhe object of .my present invention is vt'ol'nrnish awroughtlnetal post adapted to be nsedwith sneh a base, and'in which,with a minimum of material and labor, so that economy is insured, therigidity and strength necessary for the snpport of the fencing material`shall be secured.

A post for use with such removable bese must embody a shank upon whichthe besef may fit tightly, so that the post isrmlylnain'- tainedthereon, a stem suiiieient for the fencing material, and some means byewhich the location of the basev npon the shank may rhe determined andits further movement thereon prfwented.` llyfnvention primerilyconsistsserial No. 138,582. ne meer in a. homogeneous wrought-iron post embed"-4ing these three features. In vcarrying it into eiect'asnitable blank orbillet is subjected to the' action of rolls, Whichform the shank endstentil portions and a vprojecting yor enlarged portion from `the bodyof the metelitself at the line of union ofthe stem end shanktedeteirniue eudlimit the upper `line of the hase on the latter. Byforming thisstop as en er; largement the greatest strength is givenwhere the greatest strain from forces acting against the postocenrs-vizatitspoint of emergence from the base.: Preservingtliisgeneral construction, the form of thepost may' oe largely varied.- .ltmay he .let or of .any shape ci' angle-iron, or be 'lj-shaped.. Thest'en may taper from the shank to the top in' one or alliisdirnensions'. if inadein U shape, the trans verse web, which wouldtheaforin the ieee Y Fig. 4- airont lelevation of another forni, of

shaped post, 'while Fig. 5 is a longitudinal seetion of thenf'elrthereof. Alligs. 8and 9 are enlarged transverse sections, say, onlines y fand :c ar, Figs. l and 3, respectively. Fig. l0 is a plan viewolla billet suitable for forming4 'the preferred style di' post, endFigs. 11 and are transverse sections of billets bending or angling. i.

in the drawings, the referencenumeral i indicates the entire post,composed in each instance of at least the three elementsea sten, 2,' forsupporting the fence material, e. shrink, 3, for insertion into n base,and alprojecting or enlarged portion, e, determining the limits of suchportions and serving asestop to limit or fix the position of the beseupon the shank.

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